Stroke-related health risks of giving birth are highlighted in 2 posters that will be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2019, being held February 6-9, 2019, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Stroke-related health risks of giving birth are highlighted in 2 posters that will be presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2019, being held February 6-9, 2019, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
According to 1 set of preliminary research, the risk of pregnancy-related stroke is much higher among black women than among white women. Stroke is the fifth-leading cause of death in the United States, and women are more likely than men to have a stroke and to die as a result, the organization said in a statement. In addition, blacks are at a greater risk of suffering a stroke than whites.
It is already known that pregnancy increases stroke risk. To discover if stroke risk differs by race during and after delivery, researchers studied records from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 1998 to 2014. These records comprised nearly 68 million delivery hospitalizations and 1.1 million postdelivery hospitalizations for women aged 15 to 54.
Of the nearly 68 million delivery hospitalizations, 8241 women were diagnosed with stroke during delivery. Of the 1.1 million hospitalizations after delivery, 11,073 women were readmitted for stroke. After studying the deliveries, they found:
Another poster and presentation shows an association between women diagnosed with an infection during delivery and a much greater risk of stroke after delivery.
Researchers examined more than 3.5 million delivery hospitalizations from the 2013 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Readmissions Database, which compiles information on US hospital care. Out of 79,656 women who were readmitted to the hospital within 1 month after delivery, 225 were readmitted for stroke.
Researchers found:
The increased stroke risk occurred regardless of whether women had pregnancy-related complications.
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